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SunnStorm Rustlands

Online NA 66.51.96.70:28000 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#7,493top 34% · #1126 in NA
RegionNANA · group quad
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 1hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75118:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608018:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 34% of all ranked servers, top 61% in NA, and #416 of the quad servers (top 50%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 1h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 1hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 1hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 4 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:19 UTC FW27d ago 1 – running 0

Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include SunnStorm Rustlands?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include SunnStorm Rustlands: Modded Rust servers, live and North America: who's hot right now. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Softcore ^s, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on SunnStorm Rustlands mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from SunnStorm Rustlands: gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore rules make it easier; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts4 (Group limit): No team can exceed 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^s (Softcore): Part of your inventory stays with you on death in Facepunch's softcore mode; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Population

How does SunnStorm Rustlands rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, SunnStorm Rustlands sits at #7,493, inside the top 34% of ranked servers and at #1,126 in North America. The quad field places it at #416.

How many players are on SunnStorm Rustlands right now?

SunnStorm Rustlands is holding 0 players, with 50 slots in total. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 2. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 01:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Server details

Is SunnStorm Rustlands online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, SunnStorm Rustlands is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 6 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does SunnStorm Rustlands run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 6 server fps, with a low of 5. The world carried as many as 121,085 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 3,445 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is SunnStorm Rustlands located?

With its NA tag, SunnStorm Rustlands lists itself in North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 66.51.96.70:28000.

Which Rust version is SunnStorm Rustlands on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version SunnStorm Rustlands runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe times

What happens on SunnStorm Rustlands when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 4 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on SunnStorm Rustlands?

SunnStorm Rustlands wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 23 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

The rules

Which map does SunnStorm Rustlands run?

The procedural map on SunnStorm Rustlands measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 2138400164. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on SunnStorm Rustlands?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on SunnStorm Rustlands. The cap on groups is 4 players (quad). It runs softcore, Facepunch's easier setting, with part of your loot kept. Players can raid and fight one another. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Getting in

How do I join SunnStorm Rustlands?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.96.70:28000. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^s,NA,gmsoftcore,cs168909,ts4,^o^z

Game

gmsoftcore
Game mode Softcore rules make it easier.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
ts4
Group limit No team can exceed 4 players.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^s
Softcore Part of your inventory stays with you on death in Facepunch's softcore mode.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

Region

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is under North America.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.